meadow

Welsh meadow landscape with Redstart, buzzard, swallows and lots of butterflies (Gilfach Nature reserve).  Numerous animal species illustrated include swallows, hoverfly, grasshopper, and bees.  Flowers include knapweed, thistles, buttercup, bedstraws, betony, sedges, and other riverside meadow plants.

Coastal Hay Meadow in Devon (Bentham).  Illustration shows idealised grassland scene with insects, birds, and wild flowers one would hope to see in a well managed coastal hay meadow.

Pignut Conopodium majus with details of flower, root, and shoot

Common British Garden invertebrates including violet ground beetle, silver y moth, earth worm, worm, flesh fly, honey bee, ladybird, and small tortoiseshell butterfly with written annotations on each

Cricket diagram Gryllidae watercolour wash over pen and ink stippled illustration

Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus and meadow brown aniola jurtina butterfly in amongst grasses in a meadow, some in flight, with with upper wings on show and some showing under wings

Violet Ground Beetle Carabus violaceus detailed dorsal view cut to white

Violet Ground Beetle Carabus violaceus detailed dorsal view cut to white whith metallic purple wing case margins exaggerated

Red ant Mymrica Rubra swift ink sketch with red wash and stippling

Wood horsetail Equisetum sylvestris plant, stem detail, and flowering spike

Wild daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus straight on and in side view

Various wild flowers including sea bindweed, hedge bind weed, dog rose, buttercup, and woundwort

Tall fescue Festuca arundinaceae with ligule spikelet and lemma details

Meadow thistle Cirsium dissectum showing lone flower and pale underside of leaves and pale stem

Meadow buttercup Ranunculus acris with flowers, fruit, bud, large leaves and roots

Meadow cranesbill Geranium pratense with bud, seed pods and one beautiful purple blue flower

Parasol Macrolepiota procera two fungi showing different cap shapes relating to age and the annulus

Crested dogs tail cynosurus cristatus both mature and young in flower, and also showing ligule, glume, and individual spikelet

Common knapweed Centaurea nigra flowers

Common lizard Lacerta vivipara in field with grasses buttercup and orchids

Pair of Dexter cattle Bos grazing in a grass meadow

Distant landscape of hills and fiels with a tree in the midground, in the foreground butterflies such as the ringlet and meadow brown rest on orchids and buttercups

Snipe flying across a ride clearing in woodland with forestry behind showing how to manage and harvest trees and related prodcuts such as charcoal, coppicing and timber; a distant pool and alder carr gives way to clear fell forestry on distant hills and patchy clearings; in the foreground wild flowers and butterflies are shown growing […]

Wetland chalk meadow with stream running through it, flooded meadow withflowers and wild vegetation on the banks